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Searchers appear to have found the body of a young pilot who went missing on a training flight near Sherbrooke, Quebec. Hind Barch was on a night solo flight from Mirabel to Sherbrooke  and back […]

It’s not often hitting powerlines is a lucky break but a powered paraglider pilot in Manitoba may owe his life to that chance encounter. RCMP reported via Facebook that about 8:15 p.m. on Thursday a […]

West Wind Aviation has joined the community of Fond du Lac in northern Saskatchewan in calling for major runway improvements at the local airport to handle increased demand for air service. A West Wind ATR […]

Airbus says it can’t afford to meet the bid requirements to supply the RCAF’s new fighter jets so it is withdrawing from the bid process. Airbus, which was offering its Typhoon, said the cost of […]

The first delivery of prescription drugs by drone took place on Salt Spring Island on Aug. 19 as part of Transport Canada’s drone trials and by all accounts it was a success. Indro Robotics, which […]

Nav Canada will radically change the format of NOTAMs on Oct.10 as it moves to the standardized ICAO format. In a news release, the company said the ICAO format is used by most countries and […]

A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help the family of a well-known commercial operator who died saving his family from a floatplane crash in an Ontario Lake. Jeff Mavor, owner of Lake Country Airways […]

Canada’s last surviving Battle of Britain pilot John Hart has died at the age of 102. Hart was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for a combat career that started in Spitfires in the famous air […]

Bruce Aikenhead, a towering figure in Canadian aerospace whose quiet nature kept him mostly out of the limelight, died in Salmon Arm B.C. last week. He was 95. Aikenhead, who was an Officer of the […]

Air Canada will inaugurate Airbus A220 service with new routes from Montreal to Seattle and Toronto to San Jose. The new routes will commence May 4, 2020. The airline has ordered 45 A220-300s and will […]

Export Development Canada has now said it was a mistake to lend $41 million to a couple of notorious brothers at the centre of a major South African corruption scandal to buy a new Bombardier […]

The Department of National Defence says it’s paying almost double the sticker price on three surveillance aircraft because it ordered improvements on the original design. In a statement to the Ottawa Citizen, DND said it’s […]

Airbus has started making A220s in Mobile, Alabama as the Bombardier-developed former CSeries airliner gains traction in orders and popularity with passengers and crews. The Mobile plant will build A220s destined for the U.S. market, […]

An increase in the number of conflicts between manned aircraft and drones has been recorded this year. There were 85 that met Transport Canada’s definition of a reportable incident in that they posed “a risk […]

Hypoxia likely played a key role in the mysterious crash of a Calgary survey company’s Piper Navajo in the mountains west of Calgary in August of 2018 according to the Transportation Safety Board. Investigators said […]